Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.